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ADDRESSES  BY 


SCHUYLER  COLFAX, 
HON.  HENRY  WILSON, 
HON.  RICHARD  YATES, 
HON.  WILLIAM  E.  DODGE, 


HON.  HIRAM  PRICE, 
HON.  SAMUEL  McKEE, 
Hox.  F.  E.  WOODBRIDGE, 
HOK.  J.  B.  GRIXNELL, 


HON.  J.  W.  PATTERSON, 

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HELD  IX  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES, 

February  17th,  1867, 

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REPORTED  BY  JAMES  L.  AND  EM,  PHONOQRAPHER. 


NEW  YORK : 
SAMUEL    R.    WELLS,    PUBLISHER, 

No.  38 a  BROADWAY. 

1867. 


LIBRARY 


TEMPERANCE 

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IN  THE 


ADDRESSES  BY 


HON.  SCHUYLER  COLFAX, 
HON.  HENRY  WILSON, 
HON.  RICHARD  YATES, 
HON.  WILLIAM  E.  DODGE, 


HON.  HIRAM  PRICE, 
HON.  SAMUEL  McKEE, 
HON.  F.  E.  WOODBRIDGE, 
HON.  J.  B.  GRINNELL, 


HON.  J.  W.  PATTERSON, 

DELIVERED   ON   THE   OCCASION   OF  THE 

irat     eef  htg  of  tlje  Songressimral  Semperance 


HELD  IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES, 

February  17th,  1867, 

• 

WITH  A  LIST  OF  PLEDGED  MEMBERS. 
REPORTED  BY  JAMES  L.  ANDEM,  PHONOGRAPHER. 

NEW  YORK  : 
SAMUEL    R.    WELLS,    PUBLISHER, 

No.  389  BROADWAY. 
1867. 


WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  February  13, 18C7. 
DEAR  SHI: 

Yon  and  your  family  arc  respectfully  invited  to  be  present  at  a  Congressional 
Temperance  Meeting,  to  be  held  in  tbe  Hall  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  on 
Sunday  evening,  the  17th  instant,  at  seven  o'clock,  to  encourage,  by  your  presence; 
the  effort  to  stay  the  progress  of  the  tide  of  intemperance  which  is  now  desolating 
the  land. 

The  people  are  looking  to  Congress  to  give  their  powerful  influence  in  aid  of 
an  object  of  such  vital  interest  to  onr  entire  conutfy. 

If  not  disposed  to  unite  with  the  Society,  it  is  most  desirable  that  you  give  it 
the  influence  of  your  presence. 

S.  COLFAX, 
•  RICHARD  YATES,     /   „ 

S.  C.  POMEROY,  \  EXECUTIVE 

J.  W.  PATTERSON,  f  COMMITTEE. 
W.  E.  DODGE, 


THE 


LONG  before  the  hour  announced  for  the  opening  of  the 
meeting,  the  spacious  galleries  of  the  Representative  Cham- 
ber were  filled  to  their  utmost  capacity,  in  response  to  the 
call  of  the  Executive  Committee,  by  citizens  of  Washington 
and  sojourners  from  different  States  and  Territories  of  the 
Union,  and  by  seven  o'clock  the  reserved  seats  on  the  floor 
of  the  Hall  were  all  taken  by  Senators,  Representatives,  and 
their  families.  Hundreds  of  persons  were  obliged  to  turn 
away,  not  being  able  to  find  even  standing-room  within 
sound  of  the  speakers'  voices. 

Soon  after  seven  o'clock,  the  meeting  was  called  to  order 
by  the  Chairman,  Hon.  HENRY  WILSON,  of  Massachusetts. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Mr.  ORCUTT,  of  New  Jersey. 

Alter  which  the  Chairman  addressed  the  meeting  as  fol- 
lows: 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  HENRY  WILSON, 

Of  Massachusetts. 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN — Several  members  of  the  Senate 
and  House  of  Representatives,  mindful  of  the  measureless 
evils  and  sorrows  of  intemperance,  have  formed  a  society,  in 
which  we  have  pledged  each  to  the  other,  and  all  to  country 
nnd  to  God,  to  put  from  us  forever  the  fatal  cup  of  intoxica- 
tion. [Applause.]  On  this  holy  Sabbath  evening  the  Society 


4  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

has  summoned  members  of  Congress,  temperance  organiza- 
tions, and  the  people  of  the  national  capital,  to  meet  in  this 
chamber  of  the  representatives  of  the  people,  publicly  to 
commit  ourselves,  to  the  full  extent  of  all  we  are  and  all  we 
hope  to  be,  to  the  hallowed  cause  of  Temperance.  In  the 
name  of  the  Society,  I  bid  welcome  here  to-night  to  these 
members  of  Congress,  these  societies,  and  this  people  that 
crowd  this  chamber  and  throng  these  galleries.  I  bid  you, 
one  and  all,  welcome  on  this  occasion,  which  we  humbly  trust, 
in  the  providence  of  Almighty  God,  will  contribute  something 
toward  arresting  the  multitudinous  evils  of  drunkenness  that 
in  this  age  are  sweeping  over  the  land.  [Applause.] 

The  great  work  upon  which  this  Society  has  entered  is  a 
personal  reform — a  social  wai'fare.  Its  battles  will  be  blood- 
less, its  victories  will  be  tearless ;  but  the  contest  is  a  fearful 
one,  for  it  is  a  struggle  with  the  vitiated  appetites  of  our 
fallen  nature — appetites  that  have  left  scars  deeply  furrowed 
on  the  face  of  humanity.  In  all  the  ages,  among  all  the 
nations,  drunkenness  has  conquered  the  mightiest  intellects, 
the  bravest  hearts,  and  the  noblest  natures.  Soldiers  who 
have  led  their  conquering  legions  over  fields  of  victory, 
statesmen  who  have  swayed  the  destinies  of  nations,  philoso- 
phers who  have  stamped  the  impress  of  their  genius  upon 
the  ages,  orators  who  have  held  listening  Senates  in  rapt 
admiration,  scholars  who  have  led  under  contribution  the 
vast  domains  of  matter  and  of  mind,  have  been  the  victims 
of  intemperance.  [Applause.] 

It  is  estimated  that  in  our  own  country,  in  this  age  of 
light  and  of  knowledge,  in  this  land  with  fifty  thousand  church- 
es and  fifty  thousand  ministers  of  the  living  God,  we  have 
an  army  of  five  hundred  thousand  drunkards;  that  fifty 
thousand  of  this  army  annually  sink  into  drunkards'  graves ; 
that  its  ranks  are  kept  filled  by  drafts  upon  the  vast  reserves 


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of  moderate  drinkers.  An  army  of  half  a  million  drunkards 
in  Christian  America  !  Every  annual  circuit  of  the  sun  fifty 
thousand  new-made  drunkards'  graves  !  The  perishing  ranks 
of  drunkenness  recruited  and  crowded,  by  merciless  drafts 
upon  the  manhood  of  the  nation!  'How  fearful  is  the 
thought !  How  appalling  the  spectacle  !  Look  at  that  army 
as  it  staggers  on  to  annihilation.  You  see  no  mighty  col- 
umns of  heroes  marching  on  with  radiant  banners,  glad 
music,  and  glittering  steel,  to  victory  and  to  glory ;  but  a 
multitudinous  throng,  broken,  disordered,  spiritless,  tramping 
on  to  their  doom,  with  the  cries  of  fathers,  mothers,  brothers, 
sisters,  wives,  children,  ringing  in  their  ears.  All  ages  and 
conditions  are  there — youth  prematurely  blighted ;  manhood 
broken,  hopeless ;  age  bending  beneath  the  burdens  of  name- 
less sorrows ;  the  generous,  the  noble,  men  of  heart,  of  mind, 
and  of  soul,  struggling  in  the  grasp  of  drunkenness  like 
giants  in  chains ;  but  their  feet  ever  glide  onward  and  down- 
ward. God  pity  that  throng  of  scarred,  perishing,  vanishing 
humanity.  [Applause.] 

It  is  our  pin-pose,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  to  hold  ourselves 
back  from  this  great  army  of  drunkards — from  this  vast 
throng  of  moderate  drinkers,  upon  whom  drunkenness  makes 
its  annual  drafts.  It  is  our  purpose,  too,  with  the  smile  of 
God,  to  rescue  the  perishing  drunkard  and  save  the  moderate 
drinker.  We  indulge  the  hope  that  this  Congressional  So- 
ciety, by  the  blessing  of  Almighty  God,  will  contribute 
something  to  this  holy  purpose,  to  rescue  the  fallen  and  save 
the  falling.  Let  us,  gentlemen  of  this  Society,  which  we 
trust  will  long  continue  to  enroll  among  its  members  the 
representatives  of  the  people  as  they  shall  come  hither  in 
the  years  to  come,  be  true  to  our  plighted  faith  to  each 
other,  and  to  our  vows  to  our  God.  [Applause.]  Let  us 
ever  remember  that  strength  comes  from  striving  ;  that,  in 


6  THE   CONGRESSIONAL  TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

striving  to  rescue  our  fallen  brothers,  and  to  save  our  falling 
brothers  from  impending  ruin,  we  may  keep  our  own  steps 
from  gliding  downward.  Ever  watching,  and  ever  striving, 
when  life's  labors  are  done,  our  bodies  may  return  to  our 
mother  earth  unscarred,  and  our  spirits  to  God  who  gave 
them,  unstained  by  drunkenness.  [Applause.] 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN — I  have  now  the  honor  to  pre- 
sent to  you  the  Hon.  HIRAM  PRICE,  of  Iowa,  an  honored 
member  of  the  House,  and  the  President  of  the  State  Tem- 
perance Society  of  the  young  commonwealth  of  Iowa. 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  HIRAM  PRICE, 

Of  Iowa. 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN — For  twenty-five  years  of  my 
life,  by  word  and  act,  at  home  and  abroad,  through  evil  and 
good  report,  by  legal  and  by  moral  suasion,  in  season  and  (if 
such  a  thing  be  possible)  out  of  season,  I  have,  to  the  utmost 
of  my  ability  and  extent  of  my  influence,  endeavored  to  stand 
up  for  the  cause  of  total  abstinence,  and  the  overthrow  of 
intemperance.  In  the  progress  of  this  cause  in  the  years  of 
the  past,  the  prospect  of  success  has  most  generally  been 
obscured  by  dark  clouds  of  danger  and  defeat.  Occasionally, 
however,  the  sunlight  of  success  has,  through  rifts  in  those 
clouds,  flecked  the  pathway,  and  cheered  the  hearts  of  the 
laborers  in  this  cause.  Never,  in  my  most  sanguine  moments, 
did  I  anticipate  such  a  scene  as  this  hour  presents.  Here  at 
the  Capitol,  in  the  high  council  chamber  of  the  nation,  the 
Senators  and  Representatives  of  a  powerful  and  enlightened 
people  have  assembled  for  the  purpose  of  devising  ways  and 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  7 

means  for  the  overthrow  of  the  enemy  of  our  race,  and  for 
the  upbuilding  of  the  most  glorious  cause,  save  one,  that  ever 
engaged  the  hearts  and  hands  of  the  children  of  men.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

In  the  brief  space  of  ten  minutes,  which,  according  to  ar- 
rangement, is  all  that  is  allowed  me,  I  can  not,  of  course, 
attempt  an  argument,  nor  is  argument  necessary.  An  at- 
tempt to  prove  that  intemperance  is  a  master  vice,  would  be 
a  work  of  supererogation.  That  fact  is  proven  by  the  thou- 
sands of  wives  who  are  worse  than  widows,  and  the  tens  of 
thousands  of  children  who  are  worse  than  orphans ;  nor  is 
there  a  man  or  woman  within  the  sound  of  my  voice  who  is 
not  willing  to  admit  that  intemperance  is  an  evil  destructive 
of  soul  and  body. 

The  question  to  be  considered,  then,  is,  what  shah1  be  done 
to  stay  this  tide  of  evil,  wretchedness,  and  misery  ?  There 
are  but  two  classes  of  persons  on  this  question — those  who 
practice  total  abstinence,  and  those  who  do  not ;  or  I  might 
class  them  again,  as  total  abstinence  men,  moderate  drinkers, 
and  those  who  have  got  a  step  beyond,  and  are  now  standing 
on  the  verge  of  a  drunkard's  grave.  But  for  the  present  I 
shall  only  range  them  in  the  first  two  classes.  Of  that  vast 
army  of  five  hundred  thousand  drunkards,  which  it  is  said 
our  land  now  contains,  and  of  which  number  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  alone  furnishes,  according  to  a  recent  statement, 
between  thirty  and  forty  thousand,  not  one  came  from  the 
ranks  of  the  total  abstinence  men,  but  all,  every  one,  from 
the  ranks  of  the  moderate  drinkers.  If  all  men  and  women 
were  reliable,  thorough-going,  uncompromising  total  absti- 
nence men  and  women,  no  more  recruits  could  be  obtained  for 
this  army  of  drunkards,  and  this  curse  would  be  removed. 
Therefore  the  object  of  all  temperance  societies,  strictly  so- 
called,  is  to  take  from  the  enemy  that  source  of  strength,  and 


8  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

make  all  men  total  abstinence  men,  for  outside  of  that  there 
is  no  safety. 

No  total  abstinence  man  or  woman  becomes  a  drunkard, 
but  the  drunkards  do  all  come  from  the  ranks  of  the  mode- 
rate drinkers,  and  therefore  any  man  who  is  a  moderate 
drinker  is  responsible,  to  a  certain  extent,  for  the  increase 
of  drunkenness  and  drunkards  in  the  land.  If  time  would 
allow,  I  should  like  to  dwell  longer  upon  that  point,  for  there 
is  the  danger,  and  there  is  where  the  enemy  finds  his  strength, 
his  life,  and  power  for  evil. 

If  you  stand  by  the  bedside  of  the  poor  drunkard  who  has 
lost  all  for  time  and  eternity,  he  will  tell  you,  if  he  tells  the 
truth  (and  he  will  be  very  likely  to  do  so  under  these  circum- 
stances), that  he  commenced  by  drinking  some  of  the  lighter 
beverages,  such  as  cider,  beer,  ale,  porter,  etc.,  and  that  step 
by  step  he  advanced  in  the  downward  path  to  ruin,  until  he 
has  reached  his  present  position.  Hence  the  necessity  for 
total  abstinence  organizations  to  counteract  the  drinking 
usages  of  society,  and  shed  the  sunlight  of  happiness  on  the 
dark  places  of  the  earth. 

All  other  plans  have  failed;  half-way  measures  will  not 
reach  the  case,  but  practical,  consistent,  total  abstinence 
never  can  fail.  I  appeal  to  you,  then,  as  sensible,  candid, 
thinking  men,  to  say  whether  it  is  not  always  safer  to  engage 
in  a  measure  that  can  not  possibly  fail,  rather  than  take  any 
risk  where  the  hazard  is  so  tremendous. 

My  fellow-citizens,  I  want  to  say  to  you,  and  particularly 
to  the  Senators  and  Representatives  assembled  here  to-night, 
that  a  responsibility  rests  upon  you,  because  of  this  occasion, 
that  never  rested  upon  you  before.  The  first  Napoleon  pro- 
claimed to  his  men,  that  forty  centuries  looked  down  upon 
them  from  the  Pyramids.  I  say  to  you,  that  this  night,  more 
than  thirty  millions  of  free  people,  whose  representatives  you 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY.  9 

are,  are  looking  to  your  action,  and  anxious  to  know  whether 
you  will  stand  firm  or  not.  At  the  first  bugle  blast  for  the 
call  of  this  Congressional  Temperance  Society,  forty-five  men 
enrolled  their  names  and  rallied  around  the  temperance  flag, 
and  the  number  each  day  is  increasing.  We  have  hung  our 
banner  on  the  outer  wall,  and  proclaimed  to  the  world  that 
while  we  live  we  will  drink  no  more  intoxicating  liquors. 
[Applause.] 

I  appeal  to  you  as  legislators,  as  fellow-citizens,  as  men 
engaged  in  the  same  great  cause ;  I  appeal  to  you  by  all  that 
you  call  sacred  in  the  present,  and  all  that  you  expect  in  the 
future,  to  stand  firm  in  this  cause,  so  that  those  who  behold 
your  actions  may  be  constrained  to  believe  that  there  is  sta- 
bility in  the  Congressional  Temperance  Society,  formed  at  the 
Capitol  of  our  Xation,  at  the  high  noon  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  I  adjure  you  by  the  recollections  of  the  past,  by  all 
the  scenes  of  wretchedness  and  misery  that  lie  along  the  path- 
way of  each  of  your  past  histories,  to  stand  firm.  Remember 
your  pledge ;  remember  that  if  you  touch  but  a  drop  to  your 
lips,  a  vast  ocean  may  surround  you,  an  ocean  fathomless  and 
shoreless,  from  which  there  is  no  escape. 

In  this  cause  there  is  ample  room  for  the  exercise  of  the 
noblest  faculties  and  the  brightest  genius,  in  persuading  men 
and  women  to  abandon  the  wine  cup  and  drink  only  that 
beverage  which  was  prepared  by  God  Himself  to  nourish  and 
invigorate  His  creatures  and  to  beautify  His  footstool ;  that 
which  gives  life  and  beauty  and  usefulness  to  the  golden  har- 
vests, the  magnificent  forests,  and  whatever  else  on  earth  that 
blooms  or  beautifies,  and  without  which  all  must  wither, 
droop,  and  die. 

And  now,  the  few  moments  allowed  me  for  these  remarks 
having  expired,  my  last  words  are,  sign  the  total  abstinence 
pledge,  and  keep  it  while  time  endures.  [Applause.] 

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10  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  SAMUEL  McKEE, 

Of  Kentucky. 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN — I  have  not  the  experience  of  the 
gentleman  who  has  preceded  me  in  this  meeting.  I  have  not 
for  twenty-five  years  been  a  temperance  lecturer.  I  have 
not,  furthermore,  until  the  present  session  of  Congress,  ever 
belonged  to  a  temperance  society;  but  I  am  not,  as  you 
might  infer  if  I  stopped  here,  a  very  recent  convert  to  the 
cause  of  temperance,  for  since  my  boyhood,  since  the  day  I 
left  my  father's  house  to  go  out  into  the  world  to  battle  for 
myself,  I  have  put  away  from  me  altogether  all  kinds  of  in- 
toxicating liquors.  I  believed  then,  as  I  know  now  by  ex- 
perience, what  my  friend  has  said  so  well,  that  this  is  the 
only  safe  course  for  a  man  to  pursue  in  order  to  pass  on  to 
honor  and  attain  that  high  position  which  the  Creator  intend- 
ed for  man  when  He  launched  him  into  the  world.  And  my 
short  experience  in  public  life,  and  mingling  in  the  world,  has 
taught  me,  if  I  had  not  believed  it  before,  that  this  thing  of 
intemperance  is  the  ruin  and  destruction,  the  utter  loss  of 
more  gallant  and  noble  men  than  all  other  evils  in  the  world 
combined.  That  being  the  case,  it  certainly  ought  to  be  the 
highest  aim  of  all  men — aye,  of  all  women,  too,  for  in  this 
work,  as  well  as  all  others,  the  influence  of  woman  is  all- 
powerful,  and  generally,  perhaps  always  intentionally,  the 
influence  of  woman  is  on  the  side  of  good — to  give  encour- 
agement to  this  work.  Woman  oftentimes,  like  other  mor- 
tals, commits  blunders,  and  I  believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the 
drunkenness  that  exists  in  this  land  grows  out  of  the  encour- 
agement of  those  men  who  are  generally  recognized  in  society 
as  "good  fellows" — lively,  jolly  young  men,  who  generally 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY.  11 

seem  to  be  preferred,  from  some  cause  or  other,  by  the  ladies, 
to  quiet,  sober  men.  Now  this  is  not  as  it  should  be.  If 
you  find  a  good,  lively,  social  kind  of  man,  of  course  encour- 
age him ;  but  when  you  find  that  man  wandering  away  to 
those  places  where  men  are  so  apt  to  go  in  order  to  stimulate 
themselves  for  lively  work,  let  your  voice  follow  that  man, 
and  let  it  ring  in  his  ears,  "  Come  back,  come  back  •  death  is 
in  that  door  /" 

Of  course  at  a  meeting  of  this  kind,  and  where  so  many 
men  are  called  upon  to  address  you,  it  is  not  expected  we 
shall  say  much.  Much  may  be  done  by  example,  and  I  am 
glad  to  hear  the  warning  from  my  friend,  to  stand  by  what 
we  have  undertaken  ;  and  I  may  be  pardoned  for  making  one 
remark  right  here,  and  say  that,  so  far  as  his  remark  applied 
to  the  present  Congress,  the  conduct  of  this  Congress  has 
already  taught  the  nation  that  it  goes  not  backward  on  any 
advance  it  has  made.  [Applause.] 

I  know  it  is  the  custom  among  all  men  throughout  all  lands 
to  use  these  rumsellers,  these  whisky  shops,  these  men  who 
deal  in  this  article,  as  promoters  of  their  prospects  when  they 
stand  before  the  people.  Nothing  is  more  pernicious,  more 
wrong,  or  so  unnecessary.  I  have  heard,  in  my  short  experi- 
ence, of  men  giving  a  very  large  bonus  to  certain  keepers  of 
coffee-houses,  that  they  may  throw  their  influence  for  them 
in  election  times.  In  my  own  State  it  has  been  the  custom 
to  use  this  as  one  of  the  chief  means  of  promoting  the  chances 
of  a  candidate  and  winning  the  people — more  so,  perhaps, 
than  in  the  New  England  or  Middle  States.  But  such  a 
course  in  my  own  State  I  believe  to  be  entirely  unnecessary. 
It  adds  nothing  to  their  chances  of  success,  and  men  generally 
are  apt  to  close  the  canvass  and  find  the  expense  they  have 
gone  to  has  been  thrown  away,  because  the  men  are  not  to  be 
trusted  who  deal  in  it.  I  relate  you  simply  my  own  experi- 


12  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

ence  in  this  matter — not  because  it  is  mine,  but  simply  as  an 
example — when  I  was  a  candidate  before  my  people — and  it 
was  the  only  time  I  have  ever  been  a  candidate  for  a  political 
office  in  my  life — although  it  had  been  the  custom  there, 
whenever  a  candidate  came,  to  set  out  a  free  drinking  estab- 
lishment. When  I  began  the  canvass  in  my  own  district,  at 
almost  the  first  place  I  visited  I  was  approached  by  one  of 
these  men  for  money,  that  he  could  "  treat"  all  his  friends. 
"That  is  the  way,"  he  said,  " to  get  votes."  "  Well,"  said  I 
to  my  friends,  "  if  that  be  the  way  to  secure  votes,  I  shall 
never  secure  any.  I  drink  no  liquor."  [Applause.]  I  made 
the  canvass  through  my  district  on  that  theory.  On  the  last 
day  but  one  before  the  election,  dining  with  an  old  gentleman, 
an  acquaintance  of  mine,  who  had  long  been  a  politician  in 
the  State  of  Kentucky,  said  he,  "  What  are  your  prospects 
for  election  ?"  I  said,  "  I  feel  that  I  shall  be  elected."  "  How 
have  you  conducted  this  campaign?"  Said  I,  "On  strict 
principles  of  honesty,  treating  nobody,  spending  no  money 
anywhere  except  it  was  necessary  to  send  a  man  to  the  polls 
who  could  not  get  there  without  means."  He  looked  strangely 
at  me,  and  with  a  rather  saddened  countenance  said,  "  You 
will  not  be  elected.  I  have  been  a  politician  in  Kentucky  too 
long,  and  I  never  knew  a  man  conduct  a  canvass  on  that  scale 
to  succeed."  But  he  was  deceived.  The  election  proved  the 
contrary.  And  if  I  have  been  the  first  candidate  to  conduct 
a  campaign  successfully  on  that  theory,  in  all  other  canvasses, 
I  pledge  you  and  the  people,  they  shall  be  conducted  in  the 
same  way.  [Applause.]  I  know  not  whether  there  be  a 
band  of  five  hundred  thousand  marching  to  drunkards'  graves 
or  not ;  I  dare  say  the  Chairman  has  not  over-estimated  the 
amount.  But  to-day  I  have  learned,  from  an  organization 
which  has  done  an  immense  amount  of  good,  that  in  the  city 
of  New  York  there  are  fifty  thousand  wandering,  homeless, 


THK   CONGKESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY.  13 

houseless  little  ones ;  and  I  also  state  the  fact,  in  connection 
with  that,  that  three  fourths  of  this  number  are  made  so  l>y 
this  course  of  intemperance,  and  by  this  sale  of  the  vilest 
compound  of  liquor.  Stringent  laws  may  be  enacted  which 
will  somewhat  curb  the  evil ;  but  the  one  great  thing  we  need 
more  than  all  that,  is  to  educate  the  minds  of  the  people — 
bring  them  up  to  that  high  sense  of  duty  and  honor  that  they 
will  neither  encourage  nor  countenance  the  men  who  make 
this  a  traffic ;  and  when  we  have  educated  the  minds  of  the 
people  up  to  that  point,  we  shall  have  no  difficulty  whatever 
in  treating  the  matter.  [Applause.] 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  RICHARD  YATES, 

Of  Illinois. 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN — It  was  not  my  intention  to 
address  you  at  all  until  this  afternoon,  and  I  feel  the  need  of 
more  preparation  before  speaking  to  so  large  an  audience  as 
this.  The  reason  why  I  did  not  propose  to  address  this 
assembly  was  because  having  so  recently  associated  myself 
with  the  Congressional  Temperance  Association,  I  did  not 
like  to  make  a  parade  of  myself  before  the  public.  Men 
sometimes  sign  pledges,  and  they  break  them;  but,  Mr. 
President,  I  have  signed  for  good  [applause],  and  I  have 
made  my  covenant  with  God  that  I  will  keep  mine.  But  I 
felt  it  were  better  to  prove  first  that  I  was  well  established 
in  my  new  position,  before  I  attempted  to  express  sentiments 
on  this  question  in  that  earnest  and  enthusiastic  manner  in 
which  I  always  address  my  fellow-citizens  in  behalf  of  any 


14:  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

cause  which   has  the  conviction  of  my  judgment  and   the 
approval  of  my  heart. 

Some  two  months  ago  your  distinguished  chairman,  the 
able  and  eloquent  Senator  from  Massachusetts,  in  his  kindness, 
in  the  goodness  of  his  great  big  heart,  came  to  me  with  a 
petition  numerously  signed  by  members  of  Congress,  and 
said :  "  Governor,  I  want  you  to  sign  a  call  for  a  temperance 
meeting."  "  With  all  my  heart,"  said  I.  I  signed  it.  But 
the  temperance  meeting  did  not  come  off.  I  became  im- 
patient. I  went  to  the  honorable  Senator  and  told  him  I  was 
tired  of  waiting;  could  he  not  furnish  me  a  pledge?  He 
said  he  could  to-morrow.  The  next  day  he  furnished  me  with 
a  printed  pledge  of  the  Congressional  Temperance  Society. 
I  put  it  in  my  pocket,  took  it  home,  took  it  to  my  room,  read 
it  carefully,  and,  after  one  look  to  God  and  one  to  home,  I 
signed  the  pledge.  I  raised  myself  to  my  full  height,  and  I 
was  FREE.  [Great  applause.]  If  I  refer  to  myself  in  the 
remarks  I  have  made,  and  which  I  intend  to  make,  I  assure 
you  it  is  not  from  egotism,  for  I  take  no  peculiar  pride 
myself  in  having  been  addicted  to  the  use  of  ardent  spirits. 
But  there  is  another  reason  why  I  feel  permitted  to  refer  to 
myself,  and  that  is,  because  while  I  have  considered  that  I 
was  only  a  moderate  drinker,  it  has  been  published  all  over 
the  land  that  I  was  a  drunkard. 

Fellow-citizens,  there  was  some  truth  in  this,  and  there 
was  a  vast  deal  of  error  in  it,  too.  I  was  addicted  to  drinking 
occasionally  as  a  stimulus,  as  I  supposed,  to  strengthen  my 
nerves  [laughter],  and  as  a  heightener  of  social  joys.  But, 
Mr.  Chairman,  differently  from  other  men,  I  had  a  most  un- 
fortunate difficulty  with  myself,  and  that  was,  I  had  a  won- 
derful facility,  whenever  I  drank,  of  letting  everybody  know 
it.  [Laughter.]  My  sprees  were  not  frequent,  but  they  were 
long  and  they  were  loud.  [Laughter.]  The  grand  prairies 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  15 

of  Illinois  did  not  furnish  area  enough  for  one  of  my  forward 
movements.  [Laughter.]  That  was  not  only  the  case ;  but 
whatever  I  have  done  for  the  last  seventeen  years — whether 
I  had  to  make  a  speech  to  a  political  meeting;  whether  I 
spoke  against  the  Nebraska  bill  upon  the  floor  of  this  House ; 
whether,  as  Governor,  I  wrote  a  message,  or  published  a 
proclamation,  or  prorogued  a  secession  Legislature  [great 
applause],  the  universal  charge  of  the  opposite  party  was, 
that  all  these  acts  were  done  under  the  influence  of  whisky. 
[Laughter.]  Xow,  fellow-citizens,  I  have  concluded  to  put  a 
stop  to  this  matter.  The  editors  and  reporters  of  newspapers 
are  an  honorable  class  of  gentlemen  whom  I  respect ;  but  I 
want  those  libelous  scribblers  who  have  made  so  many  mis- 
representations as  to  my  course  of  conduct,  to  understand 
that  from  this  time  henceforward  their  vocation  in  that  respect 
is  gone  [laughter  and  applause],  and  they  may  now  pub- 
lish their  'libels  until  the  hand  that  writes  them  shall  foil 
withered  and  palsied ;  but  I  never  intend  that  they  shall 
have  any  license  or  authority  to  publish  me  as  a  drunkard 
again,  even  if  I  have  to  abstain,  as  I  will  abstain,  from  the 
mildest  glass  of  claret  that  ever  the  fair  hand  of  the  fairest 
lady  in  this  land  should  present  to  me.  [Applause.] 

There  is  the  evil  of  the  thing — this  misrepresentation,  this 
liability  to  misrepresentation.  Why,  sir,  after  I  had  made 
these  speeches,  some  sharp  article  of  abuse  would  be  published 
in  the  paper,  and  some  "  Friendly  Indian"  of  mine  [laughter] 
would  mark  around  it  with  black  lines  and  send  it  to  me  for 
my  Christian  contemplation  and  supreme  delight.  [Laughter.] 
I  will  stop  it.  I  have  promised  God ;  I  have  promised  my 
country ;  I  have  promised  that  proud  Commonwealth  which 
for  twenty-five  consecutive  years  has  honored  me  with  ah"  her 
public  positions,  in  the  Legislature,  as  Governor,  as  member 
of  both  Houses  of  Congress ;  I  have  promised  ah1  who  love  me, 


16  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

and  I  have  promised  Katie  and  the  children  [loud  applause], 
that  I  will  never  touch,  taste,  nor  handle  the  unclean  thing 
[applause] ;  and  by  the  blessing  of  God  and  my  own  unfalter- 
ing purpose,  I  intend  to  fight  it  out  on  this  line  to  the  last 
day  in  the  evening  of  my  life.  [Applause.]  If  all  you, 
gentlemen,  would  do  the  same  thing,  you  would  lose  nothing 
in  mind,  body,  or  estate.  [Laughter.] 

Fellow-citizens :  It  may  seem  strange,  but  I  would,  as  I  feel 
now,  as  soon  drink  fire  from  hell  as  whisky,  for  it  is  hell  and 
damnation,  too.  It  destroys  the  health,  and  mars  the  beauty 
of  the  body ;  it  can  bow  down  to  earth  the  most  giant  intel- 
lect, and  make  it  weak  as  that  of  a  child.  It  demoralizes  and 
it  annihilates  the  immortal  soul.  It  makes  a  man  forget  his 
children  or  the  wife  of  his  bosom,  and  treat  them  with  harsh 
unkindness  and  barbarity,  and  even  murder  them.  Unaffected 
by  intemperance,  he  would  peril  his  life  for  that  wife  of  his 
love;  he  would  dive  into  the  ocean's  depths,  face  the  cannon's 
mouth,  or  peril  his  life  amid  the  flames  of  the  burning  dwell- 
ing to  snatch  from  death  his  darling  babe. 

I  do  not  suppose  at  all  that  I  am  superior  to  anybody  else 
in  intellect.  I  certainly  have  no  special  claims  to  considera- 
tion from  birth  or  fortune.  But  there  is  one  thing  I  do  claim, 
and  that  is,  that  God  has  endowed  me  with  nobility  of  soul, 
with  warm  and  generous  impulses — a  heart  as  unfathomable 
in  its  affections  as  the  ocean,  and  as  broad  as  the  area  of 
humanity;  and  I  appeal  to  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  from  our 
slight  acquaintance,  if  you  do  not  think  I  have  enough  of  the 
ardent  about  me  without  ardent  spirits.  [Laughter.] 

Mr.  WILSON. — Yes ;  you  have. 

Mr.  YATES. — I  would  say  to  the  young  man,  that  grandeur 
of  human  character  does  not  consist  of  transcendant  genius 
alone.  It  does  not  belong  alone  to  the  statesman  beneath 
whose  eloquence  listening  Senates  sit  enraptured ;  it  does  not 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL,   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  17 

belong  alone  to  the  warrior  who  bears  his  proud,  unconquered 
banner  over  every  field  ;  but  it  does  consist  in  force  of  char- 
acter, in  force  of  soul,  feeling,  thought,  and  purpose.  Caesar 
was  a  weak  man  when  he  sacrificed  the  liberties  of  Rome  by 
suffering  Mark  Antony  to  put  the  crown  upon  his  head. 
Washington  would  not  have  been  great  if  he  had  yielded  to 
the  temptations  of  his  willing  army  and  accepted  a  crown  at 
the  expense  of  the  liberties  of  his  country.  The  reformed 
drunkard  accomplishes  a  more  heroic  achievement  than  did 
the  Spartan  band  at  Thermopyla?,  because  he  conquers  him- 
self. That  man  is  only  great  who  seeks  right  and  truth  and 
justice,  and  adheres  to  them  with  strong,  vigorous,  and  per- 
petual purpose. 

As  to  the  effects  upon  the  nation,  Mr.  Jefferson  said,  many 
years  ago : 

"  The  habit  of  using  alcoholic  liquors  by  men  in  office  has  created 
more  injury  to  the  public  service,  and  given  more  trouble  to  me  than 
any  other  circumstance  which  has  occurred  in  the  internal  concerns  of 
the  country  during  my  administration.  If  I  had  to  commence  my 
administration  again,  with  the  knowledge  I  have  from  experience 
derived,  tlie  first  question  which  I  would  ask  from  a  candidate  for 
public  favor  would  be,  is  he  addicted  to  the  use  of  ardent  spirits  ?" 

The  man  who  is  to  legislate  for  a  great  country,  to  help 
make  laws  and  constitutions  involving  the  destinies  of  millions 
of  human  beings,  ought  to  be  a  man  of  reflection,  moral 
principle,  integrity,  and,  above  all,  a  sober  man.  [Applause.] 
Go  into  your  legislative  halls,  State  and  national,  and  behold 
the  drunkard  staggering  to  his  seat  or  sleeping  at  his  post, 
and  ask  yourself  the  question,  whether  he  is  not  more  fit  to 
le  called  a  monument  of  his  country's  shame  than  the  repre- 
sentative of  freemen  ?  Would  it  not  be  most  fearful  to  con- 
template that  ill-fated  epoch  in  the  history  of  our  country 


18  THE    CONGRESSIONAL   TKMPEKAJTCE   SOCIETY. 

when  the  demon  of  intemperance  shall  come  into  our  legis- 
lative halls  without  shame,  remorse,  or  rebuke  ;  when  he  shall 
sit  upon  juries,  upon  the  bench,  and  drunkenness  run  riot 
among  the  people.  Who  then  will  protect  the  ship  of  state 
upon  this  maddening  tide  ;  who  will  steer  her  in  her  onward 
course  amid  the  dashing  billows ;  who  spread  her  starry  flag 
to  the  free,  fresh,  wild  winds  of  heaven  ? 

Watchman,  what  of  the  night?  We  have  been  engaged 
in  a  mighty  revolution.  Your  army  and  navy  have  carried 
your  arms  under  Grant  and  Banks  against  the  Gibraltars  of 
the  Mississippi,  and  opened  that  stream  from  its  source  to  its 
mouth.  Under  the  gallant  Joe  Hooker  your  troops  scaled 
the  heights,  and  above  the  clouds  unfurled  to  the  sun  the 
glorious  flag  of  the  stars.  [Applause.]  Sherman  marches 
from  Cairo  to  the  sea,  while  Grant  marches  through  the 
Wilderness  to  the  Confederate  capital.  The  rebellion  is 
crushed.  Behold !  a  whole  race  set  free — the  shackles  of  the 
ages  are  broken,  and  we  see  full-high  advanced  the  standard 
of  the  nation's  redemption.  "  Hark !  dinna  ye  hear  the 
pibroch  of  the  Highlanders  ?"  and  borne  upon  the  wings  of 
the  wind  the  slogan  shout  of  universal  emancipation? 
[Applause.] 

And  now  shall  this  puissant  nation,  "  Columbia,  queen  of 
the  world  and  child  of  the  skies,"  pause  in  her  efforts  when 
there  is  an  enemy  in  our  land  more  destructive  than  war, 
pestilence,  and  famine  combined,  which  sends  annually  one 
hundred  thousand  men  to  untimely  graves,  makes  fifty 
thousand  widows,  and  three  hundred  thousand  wives  worse 
than  widows — filling  our  prisons,  our  poor-houses,  our  lunatic 
asylums,  and  swelling  to  an  untold  extent  the  great  ocean  of 
human  misery,  wretchedness,  and  woe  ? 

Somebody  told  me  he  saw  in  a  Chicago  paper  the  other 
day,  that  since  Governor  Yates  had  joined  the  temperance 


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society,  whisky  had  fallen  ten  cents  a  gallon.  [Laughter.] 
Well,  that's  good,  indeed.  [Laughter.]  At  all  events,  it's 
good  neics,  for  all  that  ever  kept  ray  slanderers  from  drinking 
themselves  to  death  pro  bono  publico,  was  the  high  price  of 
whisky.  [Laughter.]  We  will  bring  it  within  their  reach, 
for  it  will  have  to  fall  ranch  lower  than  the  present  price 
before  it  reaches  its  real  intrinsic  value — a  specie  basis. 
[Laughter.]  Mr.  President,  if  old  King  Alcohol  were  dead 
and  buried,  as  he  ought  to  be,  beyond  the  power  of  resurrec- 
tion, this  nation  could  bear  our  national  debt  like  a  young 
Hercules.  [Applause.]  Then,. sir,  two  blades  of  grass  would 
grow  where  one  now  grows,  and  unbounded  wealth,  imperial 
power,  and  proud  position  would  be  the  heritage  of  the  nation 
forever.  [Applause.] 

But  some  say  this  temperance  business  is  fanaticism — it's  a 
gloomy  sort  of  life.  There  never  was  a  greater  mistake. 
Temperance  is  one  of  the  sweetest  and  most  delightful  things 
upon  earth ;  it  is  the  very  spring-head  of  cheerfulness,  happi- 
ness, and  joy — the  very  chivalry  of  manhood  itself.  I  have 
been  a  temperance  man  for  fifteen  days,  and  I  am  a  gayer 
boy  to-night  than  I  have  been  for  seventeen  years.  [Laugh- 
ter.] I  think  I  am  the  gayest  man  in  the  Senate,  except  the 
compeer  of  Clay  and  Crittenden — the  able,  indomitable,  and 
gallant  old  cavalier  of  Kentucky  (Garrett  Davis).  I  except 
you  also,  Mr.  Chairman.  [Laughter.]  Temperance  gloomy? 
Not  a  bit  of  it,  Mr.  President.  My  pledge  shall  be  a  per- 
petual charm — "  a  thing  of  beauty  which  is  a  joy  forever" — 
not  a  cloud  of  gloom,  but  an  ever-present  rainbow  of  promise, 
hope,  and  beauty.  I  am  as  proud  of  it  as  of  my  wife  and 
children,  and  that  is  the  strongest  way  I  have  to  express  my 
pride.  [Applause.]  I  am  as  proud  of  it  as  I  am  of  the  com. 
mission  which  entitles  me  to  hold  the  position  of  an  American 
Senator.  By-the-by,  Mr.  Chairman,  I  Avill  submit  to  you  the 


20  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

question :  I  rather  think  the  commission  and  the  temperance 
pledge  ought  to  go  together.  [Applause.]  What  do  you 
think  about  having  "the  teetotaler"  put  into  the  iron-clad 
oath  ?  [Laughter.] 

You  say,  of  what  use  is  the  pledge  ?  I  will  tell  you. 
Twenty  days  ago  there  came  along  a  friend  of  mine — a 
Senator — and  said,  "Let  us  take  a  drink."  I  said,  "Cer- 
tainly— all  right."  Another  friend  from  Illinois  in  about 
three  minutes  and  a  half  came  along  and  said,  "  Let  us  take 
a  drink."  Said  I,  "All  right."  It  is  this  way:  One  drink 
of  liquor  is  enough  for  me ;  two  ain't  half  enough  [laughter] ; 
three  is  only  one  third  enough,  and  four  is  chaos.  After  I 
signed  the  pledge  I  was  asked  several  times  to  drink,  but  I 
didn't  do  any  such  thing.  [Laughter.] 

After  I  signed  this  temperance  pledge,  I  wrote  to  a  little 
lady  out  in  Illinois,  who  weighs  about  a  hundred  pounds,  has 
black  hair  and  flashing  black  eyes,  and  "  a  form  fairer  than 
Grecian  chisel  ever  woke  from  Parian  marble,"  and  I  re- 
ceived the  following  answer :  "  MY  DEAR  RICHARD — How 
beautiful  is  this  morning!  how  bright  the  sun  shines!  how 
sweetly  our  birds  sing !  how  joyous  the  children !  how  happy 
is  my  heart !  I  see  the  smile  of  God.  He  has  answered  the 
prayer.  Always  proud  of  your  success,  you  have  now 
achieved  that  success  which  God  and  angels  will  bless.  It 
is  the  shining  summit  of  human  aspiration,  for  you  have 
conquered  yourself.  All  who  love  you  will  aid  you  to  keep 
the  pledge.  I  love  you,  my  dear  boy !  KATIE." 

"  Love,  the  sun,  soul,  and  center  of  the  moral  universe ; 
Love,  which  links  angel  to  angel  and  God  to  man  ; 
Love,  which  binds  in  one  two  loving  hearts.    How  beautiful  in  love!" 

As  I  look  over  this  audience,  composed  of  Senators  and 
Representatives  of  this  great  nation,  and  these  galleries  blaz- 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY.  21 

ing  with  beauty  and  the  worth  of  the  city,  and  sojourners 
from  all  the  States  and  Territories,  I  ask  myself  why  they 
are  here.  Proud  England,  upon  whose  dominions  the  snn 
never  sets,  has  but  one  queen,  but,  thank  God,  we  have  mil- 
lions of  queens,  who 

"  Shine  in  beauty  like  the  night 
Of  sunny  climes  and  starry  skies  !" 

whose  chains  we  feel,  and  yet  we  bless  the  silken  scepter. 
You  are  here  to  give  by  your  presence  encouragement  to  the 
Congressional  Temperance  Society,  and  I  propose,  sir,  that 
this  Society  shall  be  the  beginning  of  societies  throughout 
the  land,  and  that  we  will  push  forward  the  temperance 
column,  move  upon  the  enemy's  works,  and  give  him  canister 
and  Greek  fire.  [Applause.]  We  will  storm  upon  the  cita- 
del of  intemperance  until  it  shall  crumble  and  totter  and  fall 
to  the  earth.  [Applause.]  Why  do  I  refer  to  the  ladies? 
Because  their  example  is  mightier  than  the  eloquence  of  a 
thousand  Senates  or  the  banners  of  a  thousand  legions. 

You  are  here  to-night  to  see  the  snowy  white  flag  of  tem- 
perance as  it  is  unfurled  over  the  Capitol  of  your  country, 
as  it  rises  and  rises,  and  unfolds  to  God  and  spreads  until  it 
shall  cover  the  whole  land,  and  until  there  shall  not  be  a 
drunkard  nor  a  moderate  drinker  to  take  away  the  bloom 
from  the  cheek  of  female  beauty,  and  until  all  the  hearth- 
stones of  this  land  shall  blaze  with  comfort  and  joy,  and 
happiness  and  gladness  shall  dwell  in  green  freshness  there. 
[Tremendous  applause.] 


22  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  F.  E.  WOODBRIDGE, 

Of  Vermont. 

IT  is,  of  course,  quite  impossible,  in  the  few  moments  which 
it  will  be  proper  for  me  to  occupy,  to  enter  upon  any  discus- 
sion in  treating  the  great  moral  and  social  question  which 
has  brought  so  many  of  us  together  this  evening.  Indeed,  I 
suppose  the  meeting  was  not  called  for  the  purpose  of  going 
over  old  and  worn-out  arguments  in  favor  of  abstinence  from 
intoxicating  drinks,  but  rather  to  stir  one  another  up  by  way 
of  remembrance,  and  enkindle  a  new  enthusiasm,  and  awaken 
a  new  zeal. 

Now,  I  have  no  experience  to  narrate — certainly  I  am  not 
one  of  the  old  apostles  who  have  grown  gray  in  the  service. 
I  joined  the  Congressional  Temperance  Society  because  I 
thought  it  would  be  best  for  myself,  my  children,  and  for 
those  who  may  look  to  me  for  an  example,  or  over  whom 
I  may  exert  the  least  influence.  And  again,  the  time  is 
propitious  for  the  advancement  of  every  moral  and  social 
enterprise.  For  the  last  few  years  we  have  thought  of 
nothing  but  the  terrible  war  which  has  devastated  our  be- 
loved country,  deluged  the  land  with  blood,  and  brought 
lamentation  and  mourning  to  all  our  households.  Sweet 
peace  has  dawned — the  passions  of  men  are  more  or  less  sub- 
dued; purer  purposes  and  influences  are  working  upon  the 
individual  and  upon  society,  and  the  heart  seems  to  long  for 
something  better  and  holier  than  bloody  and  cruel  war. 
Hence  it  would  seem,  from  the  condition  of  things,  that  it 
is  the  day  for  progress,  and,  in  my  judgment,  the  earnest, 
thoughtful  laborer  for  the  good  of  his  fellow-man  will  reap 


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an  abundant  harvest,  Avhich,  in  the  last  great  day,  will  add 
new  jewels  to  his  crown  of  rejoicing. 

Man  is  a  splendid  creature  !  God  thought  so  when  He 
created  him.  God  thought  so  when  He  gave  His  only  and 
well-beloved  Son — our  blessed  Saviour — to  die  for  him.  The 
earth,  with  its  magnificence  of  beauty, — the  heavens,  with 
their  indescribable  glories,  were  made  for  man;  and  when 
God  breathed  into  the  nostrils  of  His  image  His  own  breath 
of  life,  everything  was  so  perfect  and  glorious  that  the  morn- 
ing stars  sang  together  for  joy. 

The  sun,  as  it  walks  in  majesty  through  the  heavens,  gives 
light,  and  heat,  and  life;  the  little  violet  at  our  feet,  which 
tells  us  that  spring-time  and  the  singing  of  birds  is  coming ; 
the  stars,  as  they  dazzle  and  sparkle  in  the  sky ;  and  the  little 
fire-fly,  as  it  lights  up  the  swamps  at  night,  were  all  made  for 
the  benefit  and  comfort  of  man.  How  great,  then,  is  the' 
dignity  of  manhood !  and  how  fearful  are  its  responsibilities ! 
Whatever  thought,  whatever  act,  whatever  purpose,  what-  ' 
ever  habit  detracts  from  that  dignity  is  wrong.  Whatever 
course  of  action  fails  to  meet  those  high  responsibilities  is 
also  wrong.  Hence  the  propriety,  and  even  the  necessity,  of 
temperance,  and  hence,  also,  the  duty  of  action,  vigorous, 
kindly,  loving  effort  to  raise  up  those  who  have  yielded  to 
temptation,  and  to  prevent  the  young  man  from  falling  into 
the  fatal  snare. 

Young  man,  you  feel  that  you  are  safe.  Perhaps  you  have 
never  been  intoxicated.  Yon  only  take  a  social  glass  with 
your  genial  friends — all  of  them  gentlemanly  and  upright 
young  men — after  the  labors  of  the  day  are  over.  Many  a 
young  man,  with  a  mind  as  well  poised,  with  as  much  self- 
control,  with  as  gentlemanly  habits  and  purpose  of  thought 
and  action  as  you  now  have,  have  been  in  the  same  position. 
Where  are  they  now  ?  Gone  to  an  untimely  and  dishonored 


24  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

grave,  leaving  behind  them  blasted  hopes,  sad  memories,  and 
broken  hearts. 

Men  are  creatures  of  habit.  "  Excess  of  appetite  doth  grow- 
by  what  it  feeds  on."  You  know,  and  I  know,  that,  as  a 
general  rule,  the  habit  creeps  upon  one  with  an  insidious, 
noiseless  tread.  He  that  takes  a  glass  to-day,  must  take  two 
to-morrow,  and  then  three,  and  four,  and  five,  and  six,  and, 
ere  he  knows  it,  the  serpent's  coil  is  about  him,  and  he 
becomes  the  almost  hopeless  and  despairing  victim  of  in- 
temperance. See  how  it  is  with  other  habits.  Take  the  use 
of  tobacco.  When  I  first  used  it,  it  was  disgusting ;  it  made 
me  sick;  but,  thinking  it  to  be  manly,  I  persevered,  amid 
vomitings  and  cramps,  until  I  could  smoke  without  nausea. 
I  thought  I  was  a  man.  Now  what  is  the  result  ?  To-day 
I  am  a  slave  to  the  abominable  habit,  and  would  give  a  good 
Vermont  farm  to  be  rid  of  it.  It  may  be  difficult  to  account 
for  this,  but  the  fact  exists. 

Then,  why  put  yourself  in  this  danger  ?  You  do  not  re- 
quire the  stimulant  now ;  you  are  in  the  midst  of  your  manly 
pride  and  strength.  Then  taste  not,  touch  not,  handle  not, 
lest  by-and-by  it  biteth  like  a  serpent  and  stingeth  like  an 
adder ! 

I  would  like  to  talk  to  the  ladies  a  little  as  to  their  duty — 
for  it  is  always  pleasant  for  a  gentleman  to  talk  to  the  purest 
and  most  beautiful  part  of  creation — but  time  will  not  permit. 

It  is  sometimes  said  that  it  is  almost  useless  to  endeavor  to 
reform  the  confirmed  inebriate,  and  that  our  efforts  must  be 
devoted  to  the  prevention  rather  than  the  cure.  I  do  not 
think  so.  Men's  hearts  seem  to  be  hardened  against  the 
unfortunate  victim  of  this  inexorable  habit.  They  are  apt  to 
say,  "  Oh,  he  is  a  miserable  drunkard ;  let  him  go !"  Sir, 
that  man  may  once  have  been  as  good  as  you  or  I;  and, 
saving  that  unfortunate  habit,  he  may,  in  the  eye  of  God, 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  25 

who  sees  not  as  men  see,  be  as  good  or  better  than  you  or  I 
to-day.  When  himself,  he  may  be  good  to  the  poor,  kind 
and  loving  to  his  family,  obedient  to  the  law,  respectful  to  the 
ordinances  of  religion.  I  confess,  sir,  when  I  see  a  drunken 
man,  my  impulse  is  to  go  to  him  and  kindly  lead  him  to  a 
place  of  safety.  Think  a  moment !  He  is  our  brother ;  God 
made  him ;  Christ  died  for  him,  and  knocks  at  his  heart,  as 
He  does  at  ours,  for  admission.  Think  again  of  the  wife, 
who,  in  the  freshness  and  beauty  of  her  early  youth,  pledged 
this  man  her  love,  and,  with  that  fidelity  which  kept  woman 
last  at  the  cross  and  brought  her  first  at  the  tomb,  clings  to  him 
now.  Think  of  her  prayers,  ascending  like  pure  incense  to  her 
heavenly  Father,  that  her  husband  may  be  reclaimed.  Think, 
too,  of  those  little  children  watching  at  the  window,  when 
night  has  fallen,  for  the  approaching  shadow  of  their  father, 
or  listening  for  his  footsteps,  refusing  to  leave  their  dear 
mother  until  he  is  in  safety.  Think,  too,  of  the  prayers  and 
groans  of  this  unfortunate  man,  as  in  the  darkness  and  still- 
ness of  midnight  he  pleads  to  be  delivered  from  this  terrible 
woe.;  and  as  in  the  morning  he  leaves  his  home,  his  children 
cover  him  with  kisses,  and  the  face  of  his  wife  lights  up  as 
with  an  angel's  smile,  as  he  promises  to  drink  no  more.  He 
is  honest  in  that  promise,  but  the  tempter  comes  and  he  falls 
again.  Revile  not,  upbraid  not  that  poor  unfortunate  man ! 
Rather  lift  him  up  with  kindness  and  encouragement  from 
the  pit  into  which  he  has  fallen.  Show  him  the  dignity  of 
his  own  nature,  the  beauty  of  truth,  and  purity,  and  sobriety, 
and  bid  him  go  and  sin  no  more.  If  he  falls  again,  and  per- 
haps he  may,  once  more  put  your  arms  around  him,  and  by- 
and-by  he  may  become  clothed  and  in  his  right  mind,  and  be 
once  again  a  man.  If  there  is  joy  in  heaven  over  one  sinner 
that  repenteth,  is  it  not  worth  while  for  man  to  save  one  soul 
from  a  drunkard's  grave  ?  The  happiness  of  life  is  reflex.  It 

2 


26  THE    CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

comes  from  without,  and  not  from  within.     To  do  good  is  to 
be  happy. 

Let  us,  then,  in  this  and  in  all  things,  strive  to  promote  the 
welfare  of  our  brother  man,  and  then,  when  kind  hands 
smooth  for  the  last  time  our  pillow,  as  we  are  about  to  close 
our  eyes  forever  upon  earth,  AVC  may  say,  "  When  the  eye 
saw  me  thus,  it  blessed  me.  When  the  ear  heard  me,  it  gave 
witness  to  me — for  I  delivered  the  poor  that  cried;  the 
fatherless  and  him  that  had  none  to  help  him ;  the  blessing 
of  him  that  was  ready  to  perish  came  upon  me,  and  I  caused 
the  widow's  heart  to  sing  for  joy."  [Applause.] 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  AVM.  E.  DODGE. 

Of  JTeto  York. 

As  I  have  sat,  sir,  looking  at  this  interesting  spectacle,  I 
have  asked  myself,  why  are  we  assembled  here  to-night  ?.  Is 
it  in  view  of  the  approach  of  some  epidemic?  Is  the  cholera 
just  upon  us,  and  have  we  met  here  to-night  to  consult  as  to 
what  measures  may  be  taken  to  stay  the  progress  of  the  dire 
plague?  No,  sir;  we  are  met  here  to-night  in  view  of  a 
wide-spread  evil  more  to  be  dreaded  than  the  cholera.  More 
die  in  a  single  year  from  th.>  influence  of  intoxicating  drinks 
than  all  who  have  perished  from  cholera  since  the  year  1832, 
when  it  first  visited  our  land.  If  we  had  met  here  to  consult 
as  to  staying  the  progress  of  the  cholera,  what  would  be  said 
to  one  who  should  stand  up  and  declare  that  he  had  a  panacea 
that  he  could  present  as  a  remedy  to  stay  the  progress  of  this 
scourge  ?  But  we  are  here,  sir,  in  view  of  this  terrible  evil, 
to  present  to  this  audience  a  panacea  as  sure  and  certain  as 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  27 

that  the  individual  who  shall  take  it,  abide  by  its  instructions 
and  follow  the  directions  given  for  its  use. 

We  are  here  to  contemplate  the  fact  already  stated,  that 
there  are  fifty  thousand  persons  going  annually  to  drunkards' 
graves.  Mr.  President,  I  fully  indorse  this — not  that  all  die 
admitted  drunkards,  but  they  die  premature  deaths  from 
disease  superinduced  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks.  The 
friends  and  the  physician  know  what  was  the  cause,  but 
report  says  "heart  disease,"  "dropsy,"  or  "apoplexy,"  while 
tens  of  thousands  die  absolute  drunkards.  We  talk  of  fifty 
thousand  !  The  last  few  years  have  taught  us  numericals  as 
we  have  never  understood  them  before.  Fifty  thousand! 
Can  we  comprehend  it  ?  Never,  until  these  years  of  war, 
has  there  been  an  army  of  fifty  thousand  collected  in  our  land. 
Some  of  us  stood  on  this  beautiful  avenue  two  years  ago,  and 
for  long  hours  witnessed  the  long  columns  of  our  returning 
noble  veterans  as  they  passed  in  review.  But,  as  we  stood 
there,  could  we  have  realized,  as  we  looked  upon  their  faces, 
that  they  were  all  marching  to  drunkards'  graves,  with  Avhat 
terrible  anxiety  should  we  have  viewed  them !  But,  sir,  if 
when  that  mighty  army  of  fifty  thousand  had  passed  down  to 
drunkards'  graves,  we  could  feel  that  that  was  the  end  of  the 
procession,  it  would  not  be  so  terrible.  But  as  1868  looms 
up  in  the  distance,  we  behold  the  onward  march  of  fifty 
thousand  more  coming  from  those  licensed  places  for  recruit, 
ing  drunkards — the  hotels  and  saloons.  I  wish  I  could  stop 
here ;  but  they  come  not  only  from  the  saloons,  hotels,  and 
drinking-shops,  but  they  come  enlisted  from  the  dining-tables 
of  the  distinguished  men  of  our  land,  where  temptation  is  set 
before  them  because  it  is  fashionable,  and  where  they  drink  ' 
because  it  is  unfashionable  not  to  drink  ;  they  come  from 
where  parties  assemble,  where  the  punch-bowl  is  seen,  where 
intoxicating  drinks  circulate  amid  our  wives,  our  mothers, 


28  TOE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

sisters,  and  friends,  and  where  temptation  meets  the  man  who 
enters  that  house  with  the  determination  not  to  drink ;  Avhere 
the  young  and  lovely  female  reaches  out  the  tempting  glass, 
and  there  is  not  moral  courage  to  resist,  and  so  he  enlists  and 
makes  one  of  that  mighty  coming  throng.  I  say  nothing  here 
of  the  habit  as  it  fastens  itself,  in  such  circumstances,  on  many 
a  lovely  woman.  Facts  could  be  given  which  would  startle 
those  who  set  temptation  in  the  way  of  the  unsuspecting. 

I  said,  sir,  we  had  a  panacea.  It  is  nothing  more  nor  less 
than  the  very  thing  the  noble  Senator  has  done,  which  is,  to 
sign  the  pledge  and  stop  drinking.  [Applause.]  What  is 
that  pledge  ?  Allow  me  to  read  it,  and  if  I  had  time  I  should 
like  to  read  the  names  of  the  noble  men  who  have  signed  it. 

"  We,  the  undersigned,  members  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  United  States,  do  agree  that  we  will  not  use  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  as  a  beverage,  nor  traffic  in  them ;  that  we  will  not  provide 
them  as  an  article  of  entertainment,  or  for  persons  in  our  employment ; 
and  that  in  all  suitable  ways  we  will  discountenance  their  use  through- 
out the  community." 

After  the  reading  of  the  pledge,  which  was  received  with 
applause,  the  names  of  the  signers  were  called  for  by  the 
audience,  and  were  read  by  Mr.  DODGE,  as  follows : 

SENATORS. 

HENRY  WILSON,  of  Mass.  E.  G.  Eoss,  of  Kansas. 

RICHARD  YATES,  of  Illinois.  L.  M.  MORRILL,  of  Maine. 

W.  T.  WILLEY,  of  W.  Virginia.  A.  H.  CRAGIN,  of  K  Hampshire. 

S.  C.  POMEROY,  of  Kansas.  W.  SAULSBURY,  of  Delaware. 

REPRESENTATIVES. 

SCHUYLER  COLFAX,  of  Indiana.  G.  W.  JULIAN,  of  Indiana. 

H.  PRICE,  of  Iowa.  S.  M.  CULLOM,  of  Illinois. 

T.  A.  PLANTS,  of  Ohio.  A.  A.  BARKER,  of  Pennsylvania. 

S.  PERHAM,  of  Maine.  R.  E.  TROWBRIDGE,  of  Michigan. 


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29 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


J.  B.  GRINNELL,  of  Iowa. 
W.  B.  WASHBURN,  of  Mass. 
T.  W.  FERRY,  of  Michigan. 
W.  WINDOM,  of  Minnesota. 

B.  C.  COOK,  of  Illinois. 

C.  DELANO,  of  Ohio. 

J.  W.  PATTERSON,  of  N.  H. 
J.  T.  HOLMES,  of  New  York. 
JOHN  WENTWORTH,  of  Illinois. 
S.  F.  WILSON,  of  Pennsylvania. 
W.  A.  NEWELL,  of  New  Jersey. 
S.  McKEE,  of  Kentucky. 
C.  T.  HULBURD,  of  New  York. 
JOHN  LYNCH,  of  Maine. 
JOHN  H.  RICE,  of  Maine. 
"W.  LAWRENCE,  of  Ohio. 
J.  H.  D.  HENDERSON,  of  Oregon. 
H.  L.  DAWES,  of  Massachusetts. 


A.  VAN  AERNAM,  of  New  York. 

J.  H.  HUBBARD,  of  Connecticut. 

J.  B.  ALLEY,  of  Massachusetts. 

AMASA  COBB,  of  Wisconsin. 

P.  SAWYER,  of  Wisconsin. 

F.  E.  WOODBRIDGE,  of  Vermont. 

CHARLES  UPSON,  of  Michigan. 

W.  HIGBY,  of  California. 

J.  W.  McCLURG,  of  Missouri. 

O.  AMES,  of  Massachusetts. 

W.  E.  DODGE,  of  New  York. 

L.  W.  Ross,  of  Illinois. 

W.  D.  MclNDOE,  of  Wisconsin. 

H.  S.  BUNDY,  of  Ohio. 

J.  F.  BENJAMIN,  of  Missouri. 

C.  D.  HUBBAKD,  of  W.  Virginia. 

J.  R.  KELSO,  of  Missouri. 


Mr.  DODGE. — Mr.  President,  I  should  like  to  know  if  that 
is  to  come  out  of  my  time?  [Laughter.] 

Mr.  WILSON. — You  have  left  out  one  name  that  ought  not 
to  be  left  out — that  is  the  name  of  TIIADDEUS  STEVENS.  [Great 
applause.] 

Mr.  DODGE. — I  will  say  in  regard  to  that  name,  that  that 
gentleman  said  to  me  on  Saturday  evening,  that  if  he  was  well 
enough  to  be  out  of  bed  he  would  certainly  be  here,  if  he  did 
no  more  than  to  say  that  for  thirty  years  he  never  had  drank 
a  drop  of  anything  which  could  intoxicate.  [Applause.] 

Xow,  sir,  I  was  speaking  of  the  panacea.  When  we  offer 
this  panacea,  we  ought  not  to  be  called  fanatics.  We  are 
not  fanatics.  We  offer  a  simple,  philosophic  remedy  for  the 
most  terrible  calamity  and  disease.  How  simple!  The  patient 
has  not  the  cholera,  yellow  fever,  or  consumption,  but  he  has 


30  THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TKill'EUAXCE    SOCIETY. 

a  habit  of  using  stimulating  drinks.  We  are  not  fanatics, 
although  no  man  can  take  the  Bible  in  his  hand  and  say  to 
me  that  per  se  it  is  sin  for  me  to  drink  wine.  Yet  he  can 
take  that  Bible  and  show  most  conclusively  that  there  may 
be  circumstances  under  which  it  would  be  sin  for  me  to 
drink.  If  my  brother  had  been  addicted  to  the  use  of  intoxi- 
cating drinks,  and  was  manfully  struggling  to  resist  the 
appetite  (which  none  but  they  who  have  acquired  it  know), 
should  I  drink  my  wine  in  his  presence,  put  it  on  my  table 
and  ask  him  to  drink,  and  he  should  be  overcome,  and  die  a 
drunkard,  God  would  call  me  to  account  for  my  brother's 
blood.  And  who  is  my  brother?  God  tells  us -who.  Our 
neighbors  —  all  over  whom  we  have  influence  —  are  our 
brothers ;  and  when  we  set  on  our  table  the  deadly  cup,  and 
put  it  to  our  neighbors'  lips,  we  are  doing  that  which,  per- 
chance, will  lead  some  struggling  brother  to  go  down  to  a 
drunkard's  grave,  to  meet  us  at  the  judgment  and  charge  us 
with  his  ruin.  And  now,  Mr.  President,  comes  in  the  power 
of  sympathy  and  example,  which  is  the  grand  foundation  of 
every  temperance  organization.  It  is  simply  the  Bible  prin- 
ciple which  we  should  endeavor  to  follow — self-sacrifice  for 
the  good  of  others.  Paul  said :  "  It  is  neither  good  to  eat 
flesh,  nor  drink  wine,  nor  anything  which  shall  cause  my 
brother  to  stumble  or  to  fall.  If  meat  make  my  brother  to 
offend,  I  will  eat  no  more  meat  while  the  world  stands,  lest 
I  make  my  brother  to  offend."  That  is  the  doctrine. 
[Applause.] 

Mr.  Van  Meter  here  brought  in  ten  young  girls  from  the 
New  York  Home  for  little  wanderers,  who  sang,  "Dear 
Father,  Come  Home !" 

Mr.  DODGE. — Ah!  Mr.  President,  who  can  think  of  the 
broken  hearts,  and  the  desolate  and  ruined  homes,  and  not 
sympathize  with  that  wife  or  parent  when  those  they  love  so 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TKMl'KEANCK    SOCIETY.  31 

tenderly  "  do  come  home,"  bringing  the  evidence  that  they 
have  enlisted  in  this  army  ?  And  now  let  me  say,  before 
sitting  down,  to  my  fellow-members  of  the  Thirty-ninth  Con- 
gress :  the  eye  of  the  nation  rests  upon  this  Congress  as  the 
focal  point.  Whatever  emanates  from  this  Congress  goes 
world-wide.  We  are  here  placed  high  upon  the  mount  of 
responsibility,  and  as  we  have,  by  God's  blessing,  helped  to 
save  the  nation  from  that  terrible  curse  of  slavery,  is  there  a 
man  here  who  will  not  be  willing  to  sacrifice  himself  for  the 
sake  of  saving  the  fifty  thousand  who  are  to  die  in  1868,  and 
to  save  the  nation  ?  [Applause.] 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  SCHUYLER  COLFAX, 

Of  Indiana. 

MR.  PRESIDENT,  LADIES,  AND  GENTLEMEN — The  President 
of  this  society  solicited  me  a  day  or  two  ago  to  speak  at  this 
first  meeting  of  the  Congressional  Temperance  Society,  and 
although  I  tried  to  decline,  yet,  when  he  pressed  the  argu- 
ment upon  me  that  every  one  should  be  ready  to  give  a  reason 
for  the  faith  that  is  in  him,  duty  seemed  to  require  that  I 
should  speak  to  you,  though  it  will  be  but  briefly.  Why 
should  we  not  speak  for  such  a  cause — not  banded  together 
for  honors,  for  office,  for  wealth  or  fame,  but  to  plead  affec- 
tionately in  behalf  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  worse  than 
orphan  children,  like  those  you  have  just  listened  to,  "Dear 
father,  come  home."  My  devotion  to  this  cause,  and  my 
interest  in  it,  dates  back  years  further  than  the  signing  of  any 
written  pledge.  My  mind  turns  back  to-night  from  this 
brilliant  audience  in  this  council  hall  of  the  nation  to  a  scene 


32  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

over  twenty  years  ago,  when  I  first  stepped  on  the  threshold 
of  manhood.  I  stood  by  the  death-bed  of  a  young  friend— 
of  the  same  temperament,  of  the  same  habits,  associations, 
and  surroundings  as  myself— in  that  Western  State  to  which 
I  had  emigrated,  and  there  witnessed  that  saddest  of  all 
scenes,  his  soul  tearing  itself  away  from  the  clay  tenement 
which  encased  it,  amid  the  wild  ravings  and  agonizing  shrieks 
of  that  most  terrible  and  fearful  of  all  diseases,  delirium 
tretnens.  Fighting  imaginary  reptiles  and  demons,  imprecat- 
ing the  name  of  his  Creator,  his  soul  passed  away.  And 
there,  at  his  death-bed,  I  resolved,  God  being  my  helper, 
never  to  follow  in  the  road  that  both  of  us  had  trodden  up  to 
that  time,  but  on  which  he  had  advanced  so  much  more 
rapidly  than  myself.  [Applause.]  This  demon,  insatiate 
in  its  demands,  finds  its  victims  everywhere — the  gifted  as 
well  as  the  illiterate — the  powerful  as  well  as  the  humble — 
the  honorable  as  well  as  the  debased;  and  sometimes,  as 
though,  like  Death,  loving  a  shining  mark,  you  find  his  trail 
in  the  forum  of  the  jurist,  in  the  national  halls  of  legislation — 
aye,  even  in  the  sacred  desk.  The  young  man  just  starting 
out  on  the  pathway  of  an  active  life,  the  middle-aged,  with 
his  mind  ripened  and  matured,  and  even  the  venerable  man, 
tottering  into  the  grave,  are  among  the  victims  of  this 
insatiable  monster.  It  is  well,  therefore,  that  we  should 
organize  against  him.  More  destructive  than  a  hostile  army 
ravaging  your  land,  for  that  strikes  but  at  the  life  of  your 
body,  while  this  strikes  at  the  life  of  your  soul.  Most 
especially  wise,  too,  to  organize  here ;  for,  if  anywhere  in  this 
broad  land,  the  assembled  Senators  and  Representatives  who 
are  here  in  these  halls  to  legislate  for  all  the  best  interests  of 
this  continental  domain,  washed  by  the  two  great  oceans  of 
the  globe,  with  the  millions  now  within  our  jurisdiction,  and 
the  millions  who  are  yet  to  come  when  we  have  passed 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  33 

away — here  should  they  have  clear  heads  and  sober  minds. 
And,  sir,  I  am  proud  to  say  that  from  that  chair  for  days, 
•weeks,  months,  and  even  years,  looking  into  the  faces  of  my 
fellow-members  here,  I  say,  before  God  and  my  fellow-men, 
that  in  the  twelve  years  of  public  service  in  this  Capitol,  I 
have  never  seen  less  intoxication  dishonoring  this  Hall  than 
in  this  Congress  which  is  now  closing.  [Applause.]  But, 
sir,  as  this  monster  sweeps  on  in  his  horrid  triumph,  he 
gathers  his  trophies  everywhere.  Go  out  into  the  broad  land 
with  me,  and  look  upon  them.  You  will  find  them  in  the 
squalid  hovels  bereft  of  every  comfort.  You  will  find  them 
in  starving,  destitute,  dependent  families.  You  will  find  them 
in  that  ever-moving,  never-ceasing  procession  going  to  the 
unhappy  drunkards'  grave  ;  in  the  poor-houses  throughout 
our  land ;  in  the  penitentiaries,  where  the  victim,  branded  by 
the  very  society  that  allowed  him  to  be  lured  to  his  fall, 
atones  with  shaven  head  and  felon  garb  for  the  crime  he  com- 
mitted under  the  influence  of  intoxication.  You  will  find  its 
trophies  on  the  gallows,  with  the  victims  hanging  between 
heaven  and  earth,  as  if  not  fit  for  either;  and,  sad  as  all  the 
rest,  in  the  darkened  intellects  of  those  who  survive. 

If  I  had  but  a  single  word  to  say  to  the  young  before  I 
closed,  I  would  remind  them  of  that  striking  remark  of 
Pythagoras,  the  Samian  sage,  who  said  that  the  paths  of 
virtue  and  vice  were  like  the  letter  Y ;  starting  from  the 
same  point,  they  soon  diverge  to  the  right  and  the  left. 
These  two  pathways  are  before  you  as  you  enter  into  this 
stern  conflict  with  life.  One  is  broad  and  plain  ;  with  God's 
sunlight  shining  on  your  footsteps ;  but  the  other  is  full  of 
stumbling-blocks,  rugged  and  craggy  with  the  tangled  wild- 
wood,  with  hidden  pitfalls  and  overhanging  precipices,  and 
when  you  start  upon  that  road,  God  only  knows  what  is  to  be 
your  end. 

2* 


34:  THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

One  gentleman  to-night  spoke  about  our  personal  duty  to 
our  fellow-men.  Is  it  not  devolving  upon  us,  binding  upon 
our  hearts  and  consciences,  and  dare  we  turn  away  and  leave 
our  fellow-man  as  we  see  him  hurrying  down  this  declivity  to 
what  we  know  must  be  the  end?  No,  sir.  The  answer 
comes  to  us  as  the  question  itself  comes,  through  the  proces- 
sion of  centuries  from  the  birth-place  of  mankind,  "Am  I  my 
brother's  keeper,  helper,  guide,  and  friend  ?"  There  is  one 
beautiful  remark  in  the  Alcoran  of  Mahomet,  when  speaking 
of  cases  like  this,  that  approaches  the  doctrines  we  believe — 
that  has  in  it  the  essence  of  true  Christianity  and  advanced 
civilization  even  for  this  nineteenth  century.  Said  Mahomet, 
"  When  a  man  dies,  the  people,  as  they  bury  him  out  of  their 
sight,  will  ask,  "  What  property  has  he  left  behind  him  ?  (and 
they  do  it  to  this  day;)  but  the  angels,  as  they  bend  over  his 
grave,  will  inquire,  What  good  deeds  hast  thou  sent  before 
thee  ?"  Here  is  the  cause  in  which  you  can  gather  up  these 
good  deeds,  which  shall  shine  like  stars  in  the  firmament  for- 
ever. If  you  can  turn  back  but  one  erring  brother,  oh,  the 
happiness  when  you  can  feel  that  your  own  eiforts  have 
restored  the  bloom  of  happiness  and  of  joy  to  the  pallid  cheek 
of  her  who  was  worse  than  widowed ! 

Leonidas,  as  Senator  Yates  has  said,  stood  in  the  pass  with 
his  Spartan  band,  and  by  heroic  self-sacrifice  turned  back  the 
foe,  and  his  fame  and  his  name  will  live,  from  the  rivers  to 
the  ends  of  the  earth,  forever.  But  if  you  stand  in  the  path- 
way between  sobriety  and  intemperance,  and  turn  back  your 
deluded  and  self-destroying  brother-man,  your  glory  in  the 
Hereafter  shall  be  brighter  even  than  that  of  Leonidas,  for 
you  have  saved  not  only  your  brother,  but  perhaps  his 
undying  soul.  [Applause.] 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY.  35 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  J.  B.  GRINNELL, 

Of  Iowa. 

LADIES  AND  GEVTLEMEX — In  listening  to  the  glowing 
pictures  of  restored  men  and  society  reformed,  I  am  reminded 
of  that  incident  in  the  classic  era  of  Greece  when  it  was  pro- 
posed that  there  should  be  a  monument  erected  and  the  lovers 
of  art  were  invited  to  make  a  contribution  to  national  glory, 
when  Phidias  came  forward  to  say,  "  What  my  brothers  have 
proposed  I  have  accomplished."  Now  I  make  no  personal 
allusion,  not  being  worthy  of  the  compliment  bestowed  on 
me  by  the  Chairman ;  yet  I  desire  to  say  that  I  come  from 
the  State  of  Iowa,  representing  it  in  part  in  this  House,  and 
can  say  that  in  this  cause  I  transfer  all  to  her  that  has  taken 
the  lead  in  our  cause  of  the  States  in  this  Union.  I  know 
you  will  rejoice  to  learn  this  of  that  young  State,  lying 
between  the  father  and  the  mother  of  waters,  beautiful  in 
nature,  grand  in  proportion,  prosperous  and  growing,  to  be 
the  fair  abode  for  millions.  A  few  years  ago  I  left  the  city 
of  Xew  York,  where  I  could  not  cross  Broadway  very  con- 
veniently, and  went  where  I  could,  and  where  I  need  not  be 
troubled  with  the  chronic  intemperance  of  that  city.  I  found 
such  a  place  on  the  prairies  of  Iowa.  I  made  my  home  three 
miles  from  any  inhabitant.  Taking  possession  of  a  little  tract 
of  land  there,  we  laid  out  a  town,  and  said  to  ourselves,  by 
the  blessing  of  God  there  shall  never  be  here  that  wThich  was 
the  known  cause  of  the  poverty  and  disgrace  of  the  great  city 
of  New  York — no  land  where  a  groggery  could  stand. 
[Applause.]  Twelve  years  have  passed,  and  from  that  small 
beginning  is  formed  a  village  made  by  enterprise  and  the 


36  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

railroad,  and  where  there  has  never  been  one  drop  of  liquor 
openly  exposed  for  sale.  Sir,  we  are  prospered  in  that.  God 
has  been  with  us,  and  sent  there  noble  men  and  nobler 
women.  They  have  been  with  us  in  devotion  from  the 
beginning,  and  when  I  have  seen  them  there,  and  witnessed 
their  endurance — when  I  know  how  their  hearts  beat  in 
sympathy  with  us,  and  that  they  are  with  us  to-night — I  am 
reminded  of  the  highest  compliment  I  ever  heard,  and  it  was 
by  a  son  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  who,  just  landed,  hearing  an 
orator  speak  in  most  eloquent  and  glowing  terms  of  woman, 
said  to  his  friend,  "  O,  Patrick,  by  my  soul,  if  I  had  not  been 
a  man,  would  I  not  love  to  have  been  a  woman !"  The  tem- 
perance people  of  Iowa  have  the  co-operation  of  the  ladie?,  to 
whom  the  eloquence  of  man  can't  do  justice.  The  judicial 
district  in  which  I  reside,  embracing  one  hundred  thousand 
people,  is  comparatively  free  from  intoxication.  What  are 
the  results  ?  Not  a  gateway  there  to  the  abodes  of  poverty 
and  woe,  and  we  may  soon  have  State's  prison  room  to  let. 
We  have  already  in  our  insane  asylum  taken  in  the  unfor- 
tunate insane  from  Minnesota,  and  we  may  take  in  also  some 
unfortunates  from  abroad.  There  are  few  in  our  jails  and 
poor-houses,  and  I  am  informed  by  the  judge  of  my  district 
that  he  has  not  tried  a  man  for  murder  during  six  years.  It 
is  a  glorious  fact,  too,  that  when  the  year  1867  began,  every 
State  officer — aye,  from  governor  down,  including  the  supreme 
judges  and  the  clerks,  and  all  connected  with  the  State 
departments — pledged  themselves  to  one  another,  on  their 
honor  as  gentlemen,  that  they  would  abide  by  the  temperance 
pledge  in  not  touching,  tasting,  or  countenancing  this  poison. 
[Applause.] 

I  wish  all  our  States  may  have  such  a  record.  I  do  not 
wish  to  boast  of  the  Hawkeyes,  but  desire  rather  to  give 
facts  for  your  encouragement.  Our  colleges  were  never 


TfTE    CONGRESSIONAL    TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  37 

so  flourishing ;  a  greater  number  are  found  in  the  schools  and 
churches  ;  an  increase  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres  of 
virgin  soil  are  being  turned  over  each  year.  We  hope  in  this 
Congress  there  will  be  no  efforts  made  for  cheap  whisky. 
The  higher  the  better ;  better  to  have  five  and  ten  dollar 
whisky  than  anything  lower  for  our  rural  population.  "We 
should  see  not  how  much  duty  can  be  got  out  of  whisky,  but, 
like  Gladstone,  England's  financier,  how  little  we  should  have, 
and  how  much  duty  can  be  got  from  that  little.  That  is  a 
temperance  measure  that  will  subserve  morals  everywhere. 
I  have  seen  the  effects  of  whisky.  I  have  not  the  experience 
of  a  reformed  drunkard,  but  I  have  marked  its  woes  and 
desolations.  It  is  a  poison.  There  is  a  universal  prescription 
in  a  new  country  based  on  the  philosophy  similia  similibus 
eurantur,  and  when  a  man  is  bitten  by  a  rattlesnake  or  a 
copperhead,  an  application  of  whisky  will  save  him — and  the 
poorer  whisky  it  is,  the  better  for  that  purpose.  There  is  no 
poison  of  the  rattlesnake  or  the  copperhead  that  can  withstand 
this  villainous  compound ;  it  drives  it  out.  But  there  was  a 
man  harvesting  who  had  been  bitten  in  his  finger,  and  his 
arm.  began  to  swell,  and  he  inquired  what  should  be  done, 
and  the  first  thing  they  brought  him  was  whisky.  He  would 
not  use  it.  They  reasoned  with  him  ;  his  arm  had  swollen  to 
his  shoulder.  They  said :  "  You  will  die ;  take  the  whisky ; 
don't  be  a  fool."  But  said  he :  "  Let  the  arm  swell ;  let  me 
die ;  I  have  been  poisoned  by  whisky  twenty  years ;  I  loathe 
it ;  and  if  I  am  to  die,  God  helping  me,  I  will  die  a  sober 
man."  [Applause.] 

He  desired  to  go  to  his  Creator  in  his  right  mind.  There 
was  another  remedy,  and  he  was  saved,  and  shall  have 
historic  rank  with  the  noble  Senator  pledged  from  Elinois. 
Sir,  the  earth  shook  under  that  tread  which  has  just 
destroyed  the  slavery  of  millions,  and  let  this  wide  land, 


38  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

without  the  clangor  of  arms,  be  blest  by  the  emancipation 
of  other  millions  from  the  thralldom  of  the  cup  of  intoxica- 
tion. [Applause.] 


ADDRESS  OF  HON.  J.  W.  PATTERSON, 

Of  Neiv  Hampshire. 

MR.  PRESIDENT — I  should  hardly  feel  justified  in  detaining 
this  audience  at  so  late  an  hour.  Indeed,  perhaps,  I  ought 
not  to  speak  on  the  subject  of  temperance  at  all,  for  I  know 
very  well  that  people  much  prefer  specimens  from  a  ruined 
city  for  essays  on  its  fallen  glories.  I  could  but  think  that  I 
was  of  very  little  account  in  this  temperance  movement,  while 
listening  to  the  eloquent  words  which  have  already  been 
spoken  to  this  audience,  for  while  the  thoughts  and  actions 
of  others  are  inspired  by  the  enthusiasm  of  a  new  birth  in  the 
cause,  I  learned  my  temperance  from  a  sainted  mother  in 
childhood.  The  Senator  who  addressed  us,  said  that  the 
inebriate  who  conquered  his  appetites  did  a  nobler  and  a 
grander  work  than  the  Spartan  band  at  the  Pass  of  Ther- 
mopylaa,  and  it  occurred  to  me  that  these  same  Spartans 
raised  a  stone  lion  there  at  the  gates  of  Thermopyla?,  that  all 
passers-by  in  the  future  might  remember  the  heroic  daring  of 
Leonidas  and  his  three  hundred.  But  I  think  we  have  raised 
here  a  nobler  monument  than  the  Greeks  raised  at  the  gates 
of  Thermopylae,  for  we  place  before  you  a  Spartan  himself: 

"  Arid  the  elements 

So  mix  in  him,  that  nature  might  stand  up 
And  say  to  all  the  world,  this  is  a  man." 

I  suppose  it  is  not  the  purpose  of  the  Society,  in  holding 


THE   CONGRESSIONAL   'JEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  39 

these  meetings  and  allowing  ten-minute  speeches,  to  discuss 
at  length  the  principles  that  underlie  the  temperance  cause, 
but  simply  to  express  to  the  great  people  whom  we  represent 
in  the  farthest  extremity  of  the  nation,  our  sympathy  with 
the  grand  uprising  which  we  see  in  every  portion  of  the 
land — to  show  to  them  that  their  representatives  are  ready  to 
co-operate  with  them  in  doing  what  may  be  done  to  save  our 
people  from  the  moral  destruction  which  seems  to  overshadow 
the  land.  You  know  very  well  that  the  temperance  cause 
has  been  somewhat  interrupted  for  the  last  four  or  five  years. 
While  our  young  men,  our  able-bodied  men,  from  every  sec. 
tion  and  State  of  the  nation  have  been  battling  to  save  the 
Union,  and  while  thus  engaged  have  been  exposed  to  the 
dangers  of  the  camp  and  the  march,  they  have  been  almost 
necessitated  to  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks  as  a  support  in 
the  midst  of  their  trials  and  hardships.  As  a  consequence, 
appetites  have  been  kindled  in  many  of  these  brave  fellows. 
It  is  not  strange — it  is  a  common,  but  fearful  result  of  war. 

They  have  now  returned  to  their  old  homes  and  industries, 
and  must  be  made  to  feel  again  the  saving  power  of  their 
influence.  They  are  made  of  too  good  stuff  to  be  lost  to 
society  and  the  great  interests  of  the  age.  Men  who  had  the 
moral  power  to  stand  and  fight  in  the  fire-sheeted  field  of 
Gettysburg,  when  grape  and  shrapnell  rained  upon  them ; 
who  advanced  the  loyal  banner  along  the  fiery  gauntlet  with 
Sherman,  till  they  planted  it  upon  the  defenses  and  churches 
of  Atlanta,  and  viscounted  the  traitorous  confederacy  from 
the  river  to  the  sea ;  men  who  could  cut  that  swath  of  death 
through  the  Wilderness,  fighting  a  month  of  battles  in  as 
many  days ;  who  could  fold  their  cordon  of  fire  around  the 
doomed  capital  of  rebellion,  and  smother  treason  on  the 
very  birthplace  of  liberty,  are  too  good  for  drunkards. 
[Applause.] 


40  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE   SOCIETY. 

It  is  our  purpose  to  save  these  defenders  of  liberty,  as  the 
strength  and  beauty  of  this  generation,  and  the  glory  of  those 
who  shall  come  after  them.  We  would  save  them  to  their 
friends,  their  country,  and  the  cause  of  civilization.  I  know 
it  is  very  common  for  men  to  say  of  those  who  are  engaged 
in  this  cause,  that  they  are  Utopian  dreamers.  Now,  I  re- 
member, sir,  in  1834,  when  James  Buckingham  brought  into 
the  English  Parliament  a  resolution  for  the  appointment  of  a 
committee  to  investigate  the  cause,  extent,  and  evils  of  a  too 
free  use  of  intoxicating  drinks,  that  a  sneer  and  a  titter  arose 
in  that  assembly  of  English  law-makers,  and  many  members 
left  the  room  because  they  would  not  be  annoyed  with  such 
nonsense.  But  that  great,  honest,  eloquent  man  brought  to 
bear  upon  them  the  evils  which  intemperance  had  inflicted 
upon  his  country  in  such  glowing  terms,  showed  them  so 
clearly  that  a  hundred  millions  of  pounds  sterling  were  annu- 
ally lost  to  the  nation  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks; 
showed  them  that  sixty  thousand  of  the  best  men  of  England 
went  to  an  untimely  grave  every  year  from  its  use ;  demon- 
strated so  impressively  to  them  that  what  Sir  Matthew  Hale 
said  was  true,  that  fom--fifths  of  the  criminals  of  the  land  were 
made  so  by  intoxicating  drinks ;  that  the  noblest  intellect  and 
the  purest  affections  went  down  and  became  imbruted  by  its 
use,  that  they  who  began  with  a  titter  ended  with  tears,  and 
the  committee  was  appointed  from  the  best  men  in  Parlia- 
ment, and  one  of  the  ablest  reports  ever  made  upon  the 
subject  was  made  by  them. 

The  evil  has  not  been  lessened  in  our  day.  We  are  some- 
times told  that  we  ought  not  to  attempt  to  curtail  the  use  of 
whisky  or  intoxicating  drinks,  because  a  large  portion  of  the 
revenue  of  the  country  is  raised  from  whisky  ;  and,  they  say 
those  men  who  are  engaged  in  the  business  are  among  the 
most  honorable  men.  Honorable  men!  In  the  last  year 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  41 

they  have  cheated  the  Government  out  of  fifty  millions  of 
revenue.  When  we  should  have  had  eighty  millions,  AVC 
have  had  less  than  thirty.  They  first  cheated  the  Govern- 
ment out  of  this  revenue,  then  they  raised  the  price  of  the 
article  as  high  as  the  increased  tariff  would  allow,  and  so 
cheat  the  victims  of  their  nefarious  business  both  in  their 
taxes  and  the  indulgence  of  their  appetites.  "Would  it  not  be 
vastly  better,  both  for  the  wealth  and  the  morals  of  our  people, 
if  the  raw  products  from  which  whisky  is  manufactured  were 
used  directly  in  commerce,  or  in  some  productive  consump- 
tion ?  Men  who  would  engage  in  this  traffic  are  the  allies  of 
every  crime  and  the  enemies  of  every  virtue.  [Applause.] 
But  I  must  not  detain  you.  I  shall  only  say  this,  that  our 
object  is  to  save  the  young  men  of  the  country — their  bodies 
and  their  souls.  It  is  a  great  and  difficult  work,  for  all  the 
literature  of  the  past  has  intrenched  men  in  the  use  of  wine 
and  strong  drink.  Why,  old  Pindar  sings  its  praises,  and 
Horace  has  his 

"  Nunc  est  bibendum,  nutic  pede  libero, 
Pulsanda  tellus." 

Genius  and  beauty,  eloquence  and  art,  have  immortalized 
this  shame  of  men.  But  we  wish  to  turn  away  from  this 
false  basis,  and  commence  a  career  more  honorable  and  glori- 
ous to  our  people. 

Others  have  enlarged  upon  the  sorrows  of  domestic  life, 
the  sufferings  of  the  innocent  and  the  helpless,  the  burdens  and 
deprivations  of  society  which  flow  from  this  bitter  source,  but 
I  urge  now  simply  the  lower  consideration  of  physical  pres- 
ervation— a  sound  body  as  the  essential  of  a  sound  mind. 
This  strong  and  beautiful  organism  is  the  cunning  workman- 
ship of  a  Divine  hand,  and  the  channel  through  which  invisible 
ideas  and  spiritual  forces  pass  into  the  framework  of  nature 


42  THE   CONGRESSIONAL   TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY. 

and  of  history — the  instrument  by  which  mind  and  Deity 
work  their  miracles  of  art  and  civilization.  To  us  is  com- 
mitted the  responsibility  of  preserving  and  beautifying  this 
temple  of  the  invisible.  Once  given  over  to  strong  drink, 
and  it  becomes  a  ruin  and  a  shame.  The  dissipations  of  a 
single  winter  demoralized  and  ruined  a  victorious  army  at 
Capua.  In  time,  it  will  stamp  feebleness  and  decay  upon  a 
whole  people.  Do  nothing  in  this  cause,  and  your  five  hun- 
dred thousand  drunkards  will  be  the  progenitors  of  an  ener- 
vated and  besotted  nation.  This  generation  should  not  only 
give  to  the  future  its  brilliant  record,  but  a  race  of  children 
who  can  advance  upon  the  achievements  of  the  fathers,  and 
cause  the  glory  of  the  past  to  dim  in  the  splendor  of  their 
works.  Not  liberty  only,  but  civilization  and  the  Christian 
faith,  are  to  be.  committed  to  the  custody  of  our  posterity. 

How  shall  this  great  work  be  accomplished  ?  Ordinarily, 
men  can  not  conquer  appetites  by  force  of  will.  To  attempt 
to  dash  the  cup  from  the  lips  by  a  volition  is  vain.  You  may 
as  weh1  attempt  to  hold  the  planets  by  threads  of  gossamer. 
The  wild  war-horses  of  passion  will  not  be  thus  curbed  and 
tamed.  You  must  put  upon  them  the  rein  of  some  force  in 
the  soul  stronger  than  the  appetite  you  would  conquer. 
Pleasure  will  become  as  circumspect  as  a  saint  under  the 
love  of  gain  ;  close-fisted  avarice  becomes  prodigal  when  the 
love  of  power  awakes  in  the  soul ;  but  ambition,  avarice, 
pleasure,  all  passions  become  as  submissive  as  children  when 
the  voice  of  God  is  heard  in  the  heart  calling  us  to  the  loftier 
duties  of  our  Christian  faith.  Here  is  the  secret  of  power, 
the  shibboleth  of  success. 

It  is  by  inspiring  our  whole  population  with  some  higher 
motive  than  the  gratification  of  sense,  that  we  shall  accom- 
plish the  work  which  we  have  set  before  us.  The  sentiments 
of  men  must  be  regenerated  and  concentrated  upon  the  work. 


THE    CONGRESSIONAL    TEMPERANCE    SOCIETY.  43 

The  spirit  of  an  age  is  the  power  which  revolutionizes  its  cus- 
toms and  its  institutions.     This  is  that 

"  Mystery  in  the  soul  of  state 
Which  hath  an  operation  more  divine 
Than  our  mere  chroniclers  dare  meddle  with." 

We  seek  to  save  millions  of  young  men  who  will  command 
the  labor  and  hundreds  of  millions  of  the  productive  capital 
of  the  country.  It  is  that  our  country  may  not  become  poor 
and  our  future  population  enfeebled  and  miserable  as  the  old 
Greeks  and  Romans  did  under  the  influence  of  luxury,  and  so 
give  up  their  liberties  and  their  greatness  to  some  more  vir- 
tuous but  less  cultivated  people,  that  we  devote  ourselves  to 
this  work.  It  is  the  future,  as  well  as  the  present,  that  we 
are  battling  for,  and  it  is  a  noble  cause — the  most  glorious 
that  we  can  labor  in — and  they  who  sneer,  and  say  we  are 
fanatical  and  Quixotic,  have  not  yet  reached  the  conception 
of  the  highest  good,  and  can  not  comprehend  the  great  in- 
terests of  their  time.  [Applause.] 


After  singing  by  the  children,  under  the  charge  of  Mr.  VAN 
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"It  Is  an   Illustrated  Cyclopedia." 


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COMPARATIVE  PHYSIOGNOMY— PORTRAITS  OP  A  LION  AND  MAN. 

"  What  They  Say,"— Notices  of  the  Press, 


Everybody  is  influenced  in  form- 
ing opinions  by  what  others  say.  And  it 
requires  everybody  to  know  everything 
and  to  do  everything.  A  great  book,  like 
a  great  public  work,  is,  or  should  be,  the 
culmination  of  all  past  knowledge  in  that 
interest.  Webster's  Dictionary  contains 
the  gist  of  all  preceding  dictionaries.  The 
electric  telegraph  was  suggested  centuries 
ago,  and  all  mankind,  dead  and  living, 
have  contributed  to  its  establishment.  So 
the  newspaper  press  throughout  the  world 
may  be  said  to  echo  the  voice  of  the  people. 
The  Philadelphia  Press  says : 

Mr.  Wells  has  put  the  thought, 
the  practical  experience,  the  close  observ- 
ation, and  the  professional  collection  of  a 
life-time  into  this  important  physiological 
work.  He  treats,  as  Lavater  did,  of  Physi- 
ognomy, shows  its  harmony  with  Phre- 
nology, and  explains,  to  elucidate  both 
sciences,  the  whole  structure  of  the  human 
body.  He  treats  of  temperaments,  and 
contrasts  the  separate  features  of  various 
human  races,  showing  also  how  character 
is  affected  by  climate.  Very  curious,  too, 
are  his  illustrations  of  comparative  Physi- 
ognomy, showing  the  animal  types  of  the 
human  race.  The  price  of  the  work  is  $5. 

A.  familiar  chapter  on  Phrenol- 
ogy is  introduced,  and  then  follows  one 
on  the  anatomy  of  the  face,  with  a  close 
analysis  of  each  feature.  First,  the  chin. 
No  otic  will  dispute  Mr.  Wells  as  to  the 
infinite  variety  of  chins ;  but  we  are  sure 
nnny  will  be  startled  to  hoar  that  this  un- 
pretending terminus  of  the  face  has  been 
quietly  telling  theii  love  secrets.  The 
jaws  and  teeth  also  tell  their  own  tales  of* 
character.  "  The  closest  mouth  can  hide 
no  secrets  from  the  physiognomist." — The 
Anti-Slavery  Standard. 


The  treatise  of  Mr.  Wells,  which 
is  admirably  printed  and  profusely  illus- 
trated, is  probably  the  most  complete 
hand-book  upon  the  subject  in  the  lan- 
guage. It  contains  a  synopsis  of  the  his- 
tory of  Physiognomy,  with  notices  of  all 
the  different  systems  which  have  been  pro- 
mulgated, and"  critical  examinations  of  the 
eyes,  the  noses,  the  mouths,  the  cars,  and 
the  brows  of  many  distinguished  and  noto- 
rious characters. — New  York  Tribune. 

It  contains  a  treatise  on  every 
feature  and  whatever  indicates  peculiarity 
of  character,  the  knowledge  of  which  re- 
quires appropriate  education  to  bring  into 
subjugation  and  be  made  to  answer  a  good 
end,  without  which  it  would  mar  and  in- 
jure the  pleasures  of  life.  All  who  can 
afford  to  possess  this  compendium  will 
have  value  received  for  the  expense. — New 
York  Christian  Intelligencer. 

It  is  a  digest  of  Ethnology,  it 
gives  us  the  symptomatology  of  insanity, 
it  treats  of  Physiology  and  'Hygiene,  and, 
incidentally,  of  Zoology.  The  chapter  on 
the  grades  of  intelligence  is  instructive, 
and  that  on  comparative  Physiognomy  is 
exceedingly  entertaining. — American  Edu- 
cational Monthly. 

There  are  very  few  men  or  wo- 
men who  do  not,  consciously  or  uncon- 
sciously, practice  Physiognomy  every  day 
of  their  lives.  They  may  ridicule  the  idea 
that  the  shape  of  a  man's  head,  the  config- 
uration of  his  nose,  or  the  appearance  of 
his  eyes,  furnish  any  guide  to  an  estimate 
of  his  character  or  disposition,  and  yet  the 
man  of  business  will  refuse  an  applicant 
employment  because  his  glance  is  restless 
and  uneasy  instead  of  firm  and  decided; 
and  every  lady  will  quietly  but  quickly 
form  her  judgment  regarding  the  gentle- 
man who  may  be  presented  to  her  at  an 
evening  party.— New  York  Times. 


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UFEIJLLyiTiWIP.       ' 


DEVOTED    TO 

Ethnology,    Physiology,    Phrenology, 
Psychology,  Socialogy,  Education,  Art, 
Literature,   with  measures  to  Reform,  I 
Elevate  and  Improve  Mankind  Physi- 
cally, Mentally  and  Spiritually. 

:E=l-   "WEIJT-jS,    Eciitoi-. 


Biography.— In  connection  with, 
Portraits  and  Practical  Delineations  of  Char- 
acter of  our  most  distinguished  men. 

Marriage  forms  a  part  oi  (.lie  life  of 
every  well  organized  human  being.  The  ele- 
ment>  of  love  are  inborn.  The  objects  ot 
Ma.riage  stated.  All  young  people  require 
instruction  and  direction  in  the  selection  of 
suitable  life-companions.  Phrenology  throws 
light  on  the  subject.  Let  us  consult  it. 

The  Choice  of  Pursuits.— 
How  to  select  a  pursuit  to  which  a  person  is 

Functions,  the  Temperaments,  Location  of  best  adapted ;  Law,  Medicine,  Divinity,  In- 
the  Organs,  Choice  of  Pursuits,  etc..  given,  vention  ;  Mechanics;  Agriculture;  Manu- 
facturing ;  Commerce,  etc.  "  Let  us  put  the 
right  man  in  the  right  place." 

miscellaneous.  — Churches, 


The    Study    and    Improve- 
ment of  Man  iu  all  his  Relations  is  our  object. 

The  Natural  History  of  Wan 

—including  the  Manners.  Customs,  Religions 
ind  Modes  of  Life  in  different  Families, 
Tribes  and  Nations  will  be  given. 

Physiology,    the   Laws   of  Life 

ind  Health,  including  Dietetics,  Exercise, 
Sleep,  Study,  Bodily  Growth,  etc.,  will  be 
jresented  on  strictly  Hygienic  principles. 

Phrenology. — The  Brain  and  its 


Physiognomy;  or,  "The  Human 
Face  Divine,  wnh  "  Signs  of  Character,  and 
How  to  Read  Them"  scientifically. 

The  Human  Soul— Psychol- 
ogy.— Its  Nature,  Office  and  Condition  in  Life 
and  Dea.h ;  Man's  Spiritual  State  in  the  Here 
and  in  the  Hereafter.  Very  interesting. 


Schools,  Prisons,  Asylums,  Hospitals,  Refor- 
matories, etc.,  described  with  Modes  of  Wor- 
ship. Education,  Training,  and  Treatment, 
riven  in  the  new  vol.  of  THE  PHRENO',OOICA.L 

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